From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] make "git fetch" update all fetch repositories Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:17:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7vzlrc45ex.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4816A989.2010204@gnu.org> <20080429053814.GA3332@steel.home> <4816C527.4000406@gnu.org> <4816CB46.1050100@op5.se> <4816D505.1000208@gnu.org> <20080429204417.GC6301@steel.home> <48178FD6.90104@gnu.org> <20080429213323.GA2413@steel.home> <48179625.3050704@gnu.org> <20080429230237.GA22598@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Paolo Bonzini , Alex Riesen , Andreas Ericsson , git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org, gitster@pobox.com, srb@cuci.nl To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 30 01:19:15 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jqz6D-0006jR-5F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:19:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753585AbYD2XSL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753451AbYD2XSL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:11 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:36086 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753277AbYD2XSJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:09 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671BC3456; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB3B3451; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080429230237.GA22598@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:02:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 86A81B06-1642-11DD-9486-80001473D85F-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > I wonder this a bit, too, and I am even somebody who _likes_ the new > behavior. But there is a difference between "should have been designed > this way in the first place" and "is currently designed some other way, > and will cause pain to switch it to this way." > > So it might simply not be worth the trouble to change. OTOH, I think > this is how we end up with many commands to do slightly different > things, which can end up confusing new users. I'm not sure what the > right answer is. Well, the thing is, push and fetch are different, so expecting the same behaviour and syntax from them is a lost cause to begin with. Even if we were designing fetch and push right now, I do not necessarily think the series shows a way that "should have been designed in the first place".